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Parking enforcement starts in October for Dearborn’s Public Service Days program
August 29th, 20080 DEARBORN People in Dearborn should be aware that enforcement begins in October of the City ordinance prohibiting parking on the street during Public Service Days in their neighborhoods. Public Service Days mean cleaner neighborhoods in Dearborn. Twice a month, the City delivers concentrated services like street sweeping to...
Dearborn Police cleared following investigation into 2004 bar fight
August 29th, 20080 DEARBORN The Wayne County Prosecutor's Office, in conjunction with the Michigan State Police, has closed its extensive investigation of the Dearborn Police Department regarding a 2004 bar fight, concluding there is no credible evidence of any illegal behavior by members of the department. Robert Donaldson, lead attorney of the...
A downsized occupation disguised as withdrawal
August 29th, 20080 Back in January, the Bush administration proposed a Status of Forces Agreement to govern relations between American troops and the Iraqis after the U.N. mandate expires in December 2008. Both Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton accused the White House of trying to tie the hands of a future American president and many Democrats in...
ACC chairman elected head of Republican committee
August 29th, 20080 MunfakhThe Executive Committee of the 11th District Republican Committee elected former Plymouth Township Trustee Abe Munfakh as its Chairman on July 29. The committee is elected by Republicans of the 11th District of Michigan, which covers communities in Western Wayne and North Oakland Counties. The District is...Hizbullah’s triumph is blow for Israeli policy
NEW YORK (IPS) Since the 34-day Israel-Lebanon two years ago, and particularly after the Doha accord in May which restored Hizbullah to the Lebanese government and essentially gave it the veto power it demanded, Hizbullah leader Hassan Nasrallah has been the most popular figure anywhere in the Arab world. "For decades, the Shi'a...
U.S. Treasury Department holds roundtable with Arab Americans
August 22nd, 20080 On Friday, August 15, members of the Arab American and American Muslim communities gathered at the U.S. Department of Treasury in Washington, D.C. to participate in a roundtable discussion entitled "Charitable Principals of Good Governance and Anti-Terrorist Financing Best Practices." The day-long event was co-organized by the...Arab countries take six medals
After winning three medals in their first week at the 2008 Beijing Summer Olympics last week, Arab countries upped the ante and won three more medals this past week, including their first two gold medals. Both gold medals represented landmark achievements for their countries, as Oussama Mellouli won the first swimming medal for...
Local cafι has college town feel
August 22nd, 20080 DEARBORN When Ahmad Hamdan opened up the Hot Spot Cafι on Michigan Avenue in West Dearborn in February, he brought with him a tremendous understanding of the sandwich business. Hamdan had owned a Subway franchise in Inkster and worked at a Tubby's, and he knew what his customers liked. But what he didn't know was how to cook...
U.S., Iraq have draft to pull U.S. troops out
August 22nd, 20080 BAGHDAD Iraq and the U.S. have reached a preliminary agreement to withdraw American forces from Iraqi cities by next June, six years into the increasingly unpopular war, Iraqi Foreign Minister Hoshyar Zebari said Thursday after meeting with Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice. The negotiations over a withdrawal timetable follow...
Wygonick, community leaders meet
August 22nd, 20080 Judge WygonikDEARBORN Five weeks after accusations arose that 19th District Court Judge Richard Wygonik made disparaging comments about Dearborn Arab Americans in a conversation with another elected official, community leaders met with the judge and said theyve agreed to a potential resolution that would ease tensions and...
Presidential candidate pays visit to Dearborn
August 22nd, 20080 About a dozen Arab American community leaders and activists met with Libertarian Presidential candidate Bob Barr on Aug. 8 at Ollie's restaurant in Dearborn. Barr visited the Islamic Center of America, spoke at the University of Michigan-Dearborn, and held a fundraiser at the Ritz Carlton during his visit to Dearborn. Barr is on the...
Demonstrators protest apartheid at State fairgrounds
August 22nd, 20080 DETROIT Dozens of pro-Palestinian, anti-occupation activists demonstrated outside the Michigan State fairgrounds on Thursday. They protested a celebration of the 60th year since the creation of the state of Israel, put on by the Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Detroit (JFMD). Invitees of the JFMD had access to all the rides...Big three block Iran attack
The United States is in a huge foreign policy muddle in the Middle East. It wants to dominate and control Iran but requires the support of the world community to accomplish its aims. Diplomacy and sanctions require only a low level of support. On the other hand, to launch a military attack or green-light one by Israel, the United...McCain shows same intellect as Bush
New York Russia invades Georgia and President Bush goes on vacation. Our president has spent one-third of his entire two terms in office either at Camp David, Maryland, or at Crawford, Texas, on vacation. His time away from the Oval Office included the month leading up to 9/11, when there were signs Osama bin Laden was planning...
Back to school with new backpacks
August 22nd, 20080 Over the past five years, 5,000 young lives have been touched by Wayne County's hugely popular Back-to-School program started by Wayne County Executive Robert Ficano. This year, 1,500 more children were presented with backpacks filled with school supplies to start the school year off right. On August 20, as part of the......
Tlaib credits pounding the pavement for her landslide win
August 22nd, 20080 DEARBORN In today's political age, it seems as if the best way to win an important race is to spend more money on advertising than the next candidate. But after her win in the Democratic primary election (with 44% of the vote) for State Representative in Michigan's 12th House District, Rashida Tlaib is giving most of the credit...
5th annual NAAMA walk for women’s cancer
August 22nd, 20080 One out of every four deaths in the U.S. is from cancer, making it the second leading cause of death in the U.S. More than one-third of these victims are women. On October 18, 2008 at the Detroit Zoo in Royal Oak, the National Arab American Medical Association (NAAMA) will hold its fifth annual walk aimed to raise awareness...Hang up on Motorola
Advocates for Palestinian rights are calling for a boycott of Motorola phones. The U.S. Campaign to End the Israeli Occupation, an advocacy group based in Washington, DC, urged its members to contact Motorola leaders about the company's role in providing communications technology to Israeli occupation forces. Motorola...Documentary on gay Muslims
Homosexuality and Islam. Can the two coexist? Parvez Sharma, a secular Muslim, has put together a documentary film about gay and lesbian Muslims who ask themselves the same question, not always with the same answer. One constant, however, is lots of suffering. Some people in the film do in fact marry, with tragic......
U.S. deserter facing deportation
HinzmanJeremy Hinzman, who deserted the U.S. army in 2004 to avoid being sent to Iraq, has been ordered to leave Canada by Sept. 23. It is uncertain if he will try a further appeal in the courts. In July, Robin Long, another deserter, was sent back to the U.S. Currently there are nine other men seeking refugee status...The race for renewable energy sources
DUBAI (IPS) As the world scrambles to develop renewable energy sources (RES), the oil-rich Gulf countries that benefit from high prices on fossil fuels are making sure that they are not left behind. According to "REN 21: Renewables Global Status Report 2007," though the share of fossil fuels in the global final energy......
Spying law quickly challenged
NEW YORK (IPS) Civil liberties advocates lost no time in asking a federal court to stop the government from conducting surveillance under the new wiretapping law passed by Congress and signed by President George W. Bush last month. The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) and a coalition of other groups declared that the new law...Israel clears soldiers in killing of Palestinian journalist, youths
The Israeli government has announced it won't prosecute soldiers involved in the death of Reuters cameraman Fadel Shana and eight Palestinian youths. The twenty-four-year-old Palestinian died on April 16 in Gaza when an Israeli tank shelled his vehicle clearly marked "press." Shana's final piece of footage shows the tank firing a......